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‘Bullies try to shame and intimidate their victims and make them feel inadequate.’

‘I've been pretty open about it to the point of shaming my father by saying, ‘Yeah, I had to take anti-depressants for almost a year.’’

‘In this case men are shamed into silence, a form of abuse that few women today would tolerate.’

‘It shamed Ruth to think of what he would see: a small, stuffy cottage, made even smaller by her three boys.’

‘I wouldn't have to describe to you how terrible these experiences were, because you know that whenever we are publicly shamed we feel we are exposed to the world and that we are in danger of becoming a nothing, a non-person.’

‘Young people feel shamed and inadequate when they lack the proper clothing or necessities for school and will stay home to avoid public embarrassment.’

‘Honesty about our internalised oppression builds a culture without thought policing or shaming people based on our assumptions of what is right.’